Show activity only by first start up

Question

I have this activity, called DataActivity, and I want it to show up the first time I open my app, and never again after. Than I want my MainActivity to be my first Activity, can someone tell me how i do this? (I'm pretty new to coding so a bit of code would be appreciated...) Thanks! Kind regards! :)

After you call startActivity(intent) to launch your MainActivity, call finish(); on the DataActivity. — mjp66, Nov 21 '15 at 19:54
Possible duplicate of [How to launch activity only once when app is opened for first time?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7238532/how-to-launch-activity-only-once-when-app-is-opened-for-first-time) — Hussein El Feky, Nov 21 '15 at 21:26

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 23 '16 at 19:59

Try below code :

public class HelperActivity extends Activity {

    SharedPreferences prefs = null;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        // Perhaps set content view here

        prefs = getSharedPreferences("com.mycompany.myAppName", MODE_PRIVATE);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onResume() {
        super.onResume();

        if (prefs.getBoolean("firstrun", true)) {
            // Do first run stuff here then set 'firstrun' as false
            // start  DataActivity because its your app first run
            // using the following line to edit/commit prefs
            prefs.edit().putBoolean("firstrun", false).commit();
            startActivity(new Intent(HelperActivity.this , DataActivity.class));
            finish();
        }
        else {
        startActivity(new Intent(HelperActivity.this , MainActivity.class));
        finish();
        }
    }
}

This activity will help you decide if its first run of an application and start respective activity according to that by storing boolean value in sharedPreference

Make this activity your launcher activity.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 21 '15 at 19:58

You could save an entry to SharedPreferences indicating that the DataActivity has been shown once, and then in DataActivity onCreate() you could do something like:

boolean dataShownOnce = checkSharedPreferencesForDataActivityShown();
if (dataShownOnce) {
    // Go to MainActivity
    startActivity(new Intent(this, MainActivity.class);
    finish();
} else {
    // Showing DataActivity for the first time, continue with the normal logic
}

There's a pretty good tutorial on using SharedPreferences here: http://developer.android.com/training/basics/data-storage/shared-preferences.html

thanks! had an answer that was kinda the same thing, but thanks for that tutorial! helped me a lot further as well! — h-beneuh, Nov 22 '15 at 00:49

Show activity only by first start up

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